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Questions about installing and activating Windows 10? Here's what you need to know before you dive in.
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Microsoft looks ready to cut 700 employees as part of the group of 2,850 that the company said it would be laying off in fiscal 2017.
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Did folks ignore the inauguration or did the world tune in to watch the new president take his oath?
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The Cupertino company says Qualcomm withheld payments it owed as a means of retaliation for Apple's cooperation with South Korean investigators.
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Dell continues to build the best out-of-the-box Linux and open-source laptops. Check out the latest Dell XPS 13 developer edition and you'll see what I mean.
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The South Korean company will blame multiple problems from different battery manufacturers for the Note 7 explosions, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Why is enterprise cloud becoming the norm?
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From generic services to industry-specific apps, the cloud is growing up
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Cloud enables new development models that will revolutionise enterprise IT
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Microsoft has released the media for its Windows 10 Anniversary Update to business users. That means it's almost time for support to end for its original release.
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Didn't think it was a big deal when Apple dropped the headphone jack from the iPhone 7? This year will see the humble 3.5mm port removed from a lot more devices.
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Creating winning analytics solutions means combining and making the most of different approaches and techniques. Taking a look at how Google does this for YouTube can provide inspiration and set a framework for analytics solutions.
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Microsoft is testing out a new power slider that could eventually optimize hardware to conserve battery life.
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Where does old-school file sharing fit in the rapidly changing world of mobile and cloud services? David Gewirtz takes a first look at a NAS appliance that implements a hybrid cloud storage environment right inside a little black box.
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The phone is an encrypted device approved by the Secret Service.
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Can the internet as we know it survive the many efforts to dominate and control it, asks Firefox maker Mozilla.
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"Hidden Figures" isn't just the story of three brilliant and determined women, but also of the transition from human to electronic computing. The latter stars the IBM 7090, and, as the movie shows, the transition was far from smooth.
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[Updated] There's more to Windows 10 than just the revamped Start menu. Here are the latest details ahead of the major Creators Update coming in spring 2017.
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Remote working and flexible working is vital to sustain of the workforce of the future.
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Google has released a free set of tools to help developers transform Tilt Brush sketches into immersive animations.
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Google Pixel is not the best Android smartphone you can buy. There are plenty of better business handsets.
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Users can expect to share 30 percent of their ill-gotten gains for signing up.
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After a drop in activity over Christmas, the most prolific ransomware of 2016 appears to be gearing up for 2017.
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Most blockchain evangelists exaggerate what blockchain does, overlooking what it was designed for, and stretch it to irrelevance
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This well-built, lightweight ultraportable looks fantastic but is also expensive and comes up short in places, notably screen resolution and battery life.
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Mark Dreyfus has said the review of whether data retention should contain exceptions for use in some civil cases should be public, and needs to be explained 'very, very carefully' by Australia's 'incompetent attorney-general'.
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Singapore's StarHub has also been trialling 5G with Huawei, having attained speeds of up to 35Gbps during tests in January.
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Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Creators Update test build: Ebook support is in. My People sharing is out until later this year.
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Like Oculus' VR for Good initiative, HTC Vive is also looking to drive social and environmental change via its $10 million VR for Impact program.
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Big Blue's cloud business was once again the star growth category, with revenue climbing 35 percent to $13.7 billion for full-year 2016.
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For fiscal 2017, Atlassian projected revenue between $611 million to $615 million as it integrates Trello.
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The federal investigation could have led to a recall, but instead the report showed how Tesla's Autopilot system has actually improved safety.
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The company provides translation services for Google, Boeing, US Postal Service, and others.
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Microsoft is enabling Windows users who buy Windows 10 Enterprise as a subscription service from its cloud partners to upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1 for free.
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Avaya has $6 billion in debt maturing within a year and said that its balance sheet was hampering its transformation to become more software and services based.
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Ponemon Institute research claims budgets often mean security of new technologies takes a back seat.
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US government may no longer have unique oversight of the internet's naming system, but ICANN remains bound by Californian laws, says official, who adds that checks are in place to mitigate any risk "of a government or third-party capture".
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Microsoft's LinkedIn is making changes to the design of its desktop app that it hopes will increase usability and user engagement.
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In an inside look at the Ubuntu founder and space pioneer, TechRepublic shows what Mark Shuttleworth has learned about innovation, cybersecurity, the future of tech, and planet Earth.
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While there's no doubt that the iPhone is the king of smartphones, there are plenty of areas where Apple is lagging behind the competition. The iPhone 8 could change all that.
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Apiary provides a front-end platform for designing, creating and governing APIs.
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Tech-assisted gaslighting is destroying truth, justice and the American way. Can anything be done?
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Attacks on the US presidential election might just be the beginning; expect more hacking and leaking this year across the globe.
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Major public cloud vendors are expanding beyond their first European locations, offering flexibility, choice and compliance to technology leaders.
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Galaxy S7 and S7 edge owners can expect to receive Android 7.0 Nougat this week.
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Forrester aimed to quantify customer experience (CX) improvements and how they translated into revenue growth by industry.
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Microsoft continues to work on battery improvements for the Surface Pro 4, while it speeds up wake-up times for the Surface Studio in its latest firmware updates.
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How does Raspbian PIXEL compare to the other Linux distributions I have been looking at?
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The identity and device management provider shares data on its users' activity, revealing trends from a limited (albeit cloud-forward) sample of corporate IT consumers.
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iOS 10 devices will temporarily crash if they receive this three character emoji text.
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The tech giant hopes that the agreement can go beyond batteries and enter the world of sensors and navigation.
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The encrypted dark web site aims to help users circumvent government censorship.
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Quimitchin Mac malware may be the first of 2017 to hit the headlines, but its code is buried in history.
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Chris Liddell has stepped down from the cloud accounting firm to take up his new role as assistant to the president-elect of the United States.
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Because it provides a public "immutable" ledger, blockchains can facilitate a "single source of truth" and offer a robust, inexpensive way for documents to be digitally signed and authenticated.
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Adobe automatically installed Chrome extensions found to leave millions vulnerable to cross-site scripting attack.
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'The new digital business model needs has to be written in software,' and those who understand software need to step up to lead the way.
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The tax office has said users of its online systems can expect disruptions as it seeks to fix the hardware problems lingering from late last year.
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Millions of us spend more time on our phones than any other computing device and use our phones to stay up on the latest news. The latest News Republic update adds exclusive features for Samsung phones and watches.
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LG Electronics has sent out invites for the G6 unveiling event to take place on February 26, a day ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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The arrest warrant on Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong for bribery charges has been rejected by the court due to the legal contentiousness of the case and lack of reason to do so.
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AI company Neurala has secured $14 million from a consortium of investors including Prelion Ventures, Motorola Ventures, and Draper Associates Investments that will aid its expansion into consumer electronics.
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Many citizens will be sharing information about themselves with municipal governments -- in exchange for enhanced services
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On the CNET Stage at CES 2017, ZDNet and TechRepublic editors wrapped up the show with a discussion of the most important trends and product categories at this year's CES.
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Robots could be given 'electronic person' status, says report, which argues a legal framework is urgently needed for robots and self-driving cars.
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Like the MongoDB ransomware attacks before it, Elasticsearch users are being hammered by ransomware assaults because they were too dumb to practice basic security.
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The city of São Paulo will be the main beneficiary from changes in service taxes online on-demand entertainment services will have to pay.
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Twitter began its buy button endeavor under former CEO Dick Costolo.
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Motorola's latest devices still don't have Android Nougat, but the company has given a timeframe on its eventual release.
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Oracle said the lawsuit is politically motivated. The Department of Labor noted that government contracts could be at stake.
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Twitter's acquisition talks went nowhere last year, but the company is slimming down by selling its developer platform.
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While Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi and others attack the middle market, Google and Andy Rubin's startup seek to shake Samsung leadership via advanced agent technology
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According to Slack, Threads will provide a better way to organize and focus conversations and provide context.
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Microsoft has added support for yet another Linux distribution on Azure: Clear Linux OS.
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The provision would have expanded the FBI's powers to use national security letters to grab Americans' browsing histories without a court order.
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Gang behind multiple cyberattacks on banks and financial institutions has found a new way to manage its activities.
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Slack's Desktop client is available in the Windows 10 app Store. Here's how and why it got there.
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The long-awaited new chief executive says the e-signature and digital transaction management company is "IPO ready."
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DxContinuum develops algorithms for machine learning and predictive analytics software for sales teams.
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The researchers warned that the bug likely exists in all Samsung SmartCam devices.
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Fujitsu has unveiled a six-inch Windows 10 tablet, and a 13.3-inch super-light Windows 10 notebook.
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Microsoft plans to seek continued partnership opportunities with Baidu following the move of its former Vice President Qi Lu's move to head up AI and act as COO at the Chinese search giant.
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The Defense Department is aiming to consolidate workloads with a new on-premise managed services contract.
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Competition aims to inspire girls aged 13 to 15 to take up a role in protecting the UK from cyberattacks.
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The deal marks the first time the Army has enlisted a private company to run a large-scale data center on its behalf within a military installation.
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Oracle urges customers to apply patches immediately to prevent at least 100 remotely exploitable flaws present in its products being exploited.
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Google has rolled out an answer for those occasions when a bad mobile connection stops you using search.
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Instead of having to go through sometimes unscrupulous middlemen, East African farmers can now sell direct using Mastercard's 2KUZE mobile marketplace.
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Windows 10 has a generous assortment of performance monitoring tools. One of those tools, hidden in Task Manager, can help you watch the performance of a network connection or disk controller in real time.
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Led by Nanyang Technological University and NXP Semiconductors, the consortium provides a testbed to develop and trial technologies such as smart traffic systems and environmental sensors.
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Mesh networks are a novel way to get good Wi-Fi connectivity in buildings that suffer from "not spots". They're already available from several firms in the USA, but BT's Whole Home Wi-Fi is the first to appear in the UK
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The FTC's complaint against Qualcomm's licensing practices is flawed, has no economic basis, and relies on 'significant misconceptions' about the mobile industry, the company has argued.
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The Free Software Foundation has said it wants a free software version of a personal assistant among its updated priority projects list.
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During a trial of 5G network technology, Huawei and M1 used mmWave spectrum in the 73GHz band to achieve transit speeds of 35Gbps.
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A report from Gemalto has found that consumers are increasingly aware of online security risks but hold businesses responsible for the security of their data.
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The court will decide on whether to arrest Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong, who faces bribery charges over his alleged role in a national corruption scandal pending trial.
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Samsung Electronics will supply its Exynos processors to German auto giant Audi for the latter's next generation cars' infotainment systems.
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Champions of yesteryear Samsung and India's Micromax are reeling and may have to come up with something otherworldly in order to stage a comeback.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the automated Centrelink debt recovery process is 'quite appropriate'.
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Megaport has announced that it is providing its 'broadband-on-demand' service to customers in South America via a subsea cable under a deal with Seaborn.
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Cloud video conferencing company Zoom has achieved unicorn status after raising $100 million in a Series D round that valued it at $1 billion.
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Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos has been announced as the country's new minister for Industry, Innovation and Science.
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Recent market assessment predicts application containers will grow faster than any other solution type this year and the next.
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Those of you who just can't let go of your Note 7 smartphone, you're running out of options.
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US regulators allege Qualcomm used its power in the market to impose unfair licensing terms.
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Evernote released a major update for iOS users that brings a fresh UI with a focus on quick search, easy note creation, and colorful customization.
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HPE gets more software defined infrastructure and touts integration of SimpliVity with its hyperconverged systems.
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The first iPhone from 2007 can no longer connect to AT&T's networks, as the carrier shuttered 2G networks on Jan. 1.
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In some cases, the hard-coded secrets could allow an attacker to steal or delete data.
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Microsoft may be building a dedicated ebook store into the Windows 10 Creators Update, according to a new report, giving it one more asset for its 'Universal Store' holy grail.
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A new set of BIND problems have emerged, and you should patch them before your servers get crunched by a DDoS attack.
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Google will unveil the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style on February 9 and release them a day in the US, says Evleaks.
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Microsoft's latest acquisition, 3D data-optimization vendor Simplygon, is part of Redmond's strategy to make 3D part of future users' experiences.
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Some browsers will turn over a user's autofill information, even when the website doesn't ask for it.
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If you posted one public social media post per second, it would take you 31,000 years to reach one trillion posts, which will all be in Crimson Hexagon's data repository.
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Google's Infrastructure Security Design Overview document details how the company secures the servers it uses internally and for cloud services.
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After delays, an unconfirmed report may shed light on when Google plans to release its big wearables update.
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said 80 percent of software as a service market share will be concentrated with two vendors. Hurd's pitch to line of business leaders is that Oracle will be one of them.
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A new lithium-ion battery contains an inbuilt fire extinguisher that releases a flame retardant when the temperature reaches a dangerous level.
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Brexit vote has send the pound down -- and iOS app prices up.
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Nadella thinks Microsoft and its tech rivals should focus AI on tasks that help humans rather than replace jobs.
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According to security firm Forcepoint, millennial's behaviour poses significant risk to federal IT systems
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Figure shows that recorded incidents of Locky, one of the most common malware threats, dropped by over 80 percent during December -- but it'll be back.
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NBN will begin rolling out its network to cities including Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Fremantle, and the Gold Coast, with the company warning of disruptions as it needs to access pits and existing infrastructure.
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IBM's CEO said artificial intelligence should be used to advance and augment humans not replace them. Transparency of AI development is also necessary.
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The recent MongoDB ransomware hack in the cloud that made headlines earlier this week raises questions as to whether cloud platform providers should take the initiative in babysitting their most negligent customers.
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Amazon's amazing Alexa AI assistant keeps getting smarter and smarter. These 25 tricks make her even more useful.
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While Apple's HealthKit seems to have generated more interest in the healthcare industry, the popularity of Android could mean that the situation doesn't stay that way for long.
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Today I try a variety of Linux distributions on a low-priced laptop that comes with Windows 10 Home.
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South African courier WumDrop is tackling poor address data by delivering parcels to your phone location.
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Microsoft warns business customers to begin migrating from Windows 7, exactly three years before it reaches end of life.
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Computers have long helped us at work. But with artificial intelligence we can now work with them in more collaborative and intuitive ways.
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Research from the IT outsourcing company has revealed that Australian businesses rank last in artificial intelligence maturity globally, with a lack of skills and ethical concerns impacting adoption levels.
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Dr Qi Lu has already joined the Chinese search engine giant in the capacity of group president and chief operating officer.
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Vodafone has partnered with Ericsson and Cisco to virtualise its core network in the hope that it will improve customer experience while reducing opex and capex spend.
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A Victorian government hunting authority has accidentally sent customer data to people renewing their hunting licences.
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The interconnection services provider now has a second route connecting Singapore and Hong Kong, and a new route between the US west coast and Hong Kong.
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As the global race to produce automated trains and connected cars continues, the Australian government has injected AU$12 million into a two-year positioning technology project that such innovations are expected to benefit from.
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The self-flying car may become more than just a figment of our imaginations, with aerospace giant Airbus looking to test its prototype in the air by the end of 2017.
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The almost three-hour outage in voice services was caused by an error made during planned work on the network, Vodafone has said, with services restored around 8am.
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Apple's laptop plans this year are detailed by an Apple analyst, but there's no word on new iMacs.
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Samsung and Huawei are among those signed up to help Alibaba thwart the selling of counterfeit goods on its online platforms by using big data analytics.
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Having encrypted data while in transit over a 10Gbps link between the US and Australia, Ericsson and Telstra are now looking towards testing the optical encryption technology over a 100Gbps link.
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When Microsoft added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to Windows 10 it became possible to run other Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, and not just Ubuntu, on Windows 10.
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The IT giant has announced plans to live-stream tennis matches through PlayStation VR at the upcoming French Open.
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In a sudden move, US hard disk manufacturer Seagate has shut down its plant in Suzhou, China and laid off over 2,000 employees as profits slump and global demand for hard disk drivers shrinks.
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Analysis: Microsoft favors the "just enough" approach to appease privacy regulators, but it ignores a fundamental customer complaint.
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Wearables like the Apple Watch and Fitbit Blaze come with proprietary charging cables, but the end connected to your device simply sits on a table or desk. Satechi has a better solution, that also helps with charging other mobile gear.
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Local investment in technology will gather pace again after a year of stagnation, says survey
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A newly revealed Microsoft patent application for a foldable phone and hinge has reignited speculation about the company's plans to re-enter the mobile-device space.
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Samsung is expected to officially announce what sparked its Note 7 smartphone to catch fire, prompting a global recall in September 2016.
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The platform works to bring together retail hardware, software, APIs and sensors in a standardized way.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Compute Module 3, a slimmed-down Raspberry Pi missing the SD card and other sockets for embedding in other products.
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Automation probably won't lead to massive unemployment, but governments will still need to prepare for major upheaval, according to a new study.
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We will soon be swimming in a sea of geometric data, says Google, and this open source compression library could help.
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File-sharing remains offline as a precaution, but hospital says no patient data has been accessed in the attack
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Managers should develop their teams, not just lead them. Here's how.
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Rather than using macros, this malware uses Visual Basic Script to avoid detection.
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The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence fund will start out with $27 million to fund work that "advances the development of ethical AI in the public interest."
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Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were shielded from two exploits even before Microsoft had issued patches for them, its researchers have found.
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Today I'm focusing on the original Raspberry Pi Model B and B+, and the Pi Zero. I also have some more information about Ubuntu MATE from my previous post.
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A Columbia professor and a technology writer explore what it takes to create a driverless vehicle, and discuss the battle for supremacy between car manufacturers and software companies.
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The ability to display two A4 pages side by side, 1,920 by 1,200 resolution with flicker-free backlight and high energy efficiency make the 240B7Q well suited to business use.
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With the ability to offer low prices without compromising on technical specs, Chinese manufacturers of consumer video surveillance devices will outpace their US peers if market share boils down to a simple price war.
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Samsung Electronics will announce its findings on what caused the Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire next Monday at a press conference in South Korea, ahead of the launch of the Galaxy S8.
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Hong Kong and Singapore in 2015 produced the highest volume of e-waste in the East and Southeast Asian region, generating 21.7kg and 19.95kg, respectively, per capita.
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Wearables with eSIMs will no longer need to pair via Bluetooth with phones to use data, SMS, and call capabilities on Singtel's 4G network.
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The 700MHz spectrum will be auctioned off in two lots: 2x 10MHz and 2x 5MHz, with bids starting at AU$571.8 million and AU$285.9 million, respectively.
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Sydney-based fintech accelerator H2 has received a AU$2 million loan guarantee from Jobs for NSW that will allow it to access a AU$4 million loan from Investec.
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Special prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant for Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong, who faces bribery, embezzlement, and perjury charges over his role in Korean presidential scandal that is gripping the nation.
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India's largest IT service provider has announced Rajesh Gopinathan as its new CEO, replacing N Chandrasekaran, as well as a Q3 net profit of $1 billion.
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NBN will be trialling an aeronautical mobile satellite service proof of concept for nine months beginning in February.
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Mobile coverage in Western Australia will improve thanks to the small cells being installed along a 2,000km stretch of highway by Optus in an effort to bring 3G and 4G to remote areas.
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Chinese e-commerce giant wants to stand out from its cloud competitors with "internet-ready middleware" offerings developed from its own experience handling massive online transactions.
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The CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder has begun crunching the data to solve fundamental scientific questions previously thought of as unanswerable.
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The university has moved one step closer to quantum computing becoming a reality, using machine learning to predict the demise of a quantum bit, thus extending its useful life.
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Our phones won't blow up: LG looks to capitalize off Samsung's Note 7 missteps with plenty of safety marketing and features.
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Unless your next smart fridge is going to have a support lifecycle the length of Windows XP, it's going to be cracked in a couple of years.
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Apple announced the first iPhone ten years ago and CES 2017 just wrapped up. Kevin and I had plenty to talk about after about a month away from the mics.
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Telstra's 'highly resilient' Japan-Hong Kong and Hong Kong-Singapore subsea cables now come with a guarantee that services will never suffer outages for more than a few hours.
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If you were wondering what the Galaxy S8 will look like, an advertisement from Samsung's display division could drop a few hints.
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The Californian startup darling has begun mapping Gold Coast roads to enhance its GPS capabilities as it looks to rely less on Google and Apple maps.
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